When smart and experienced coaches like Dan John get consulting calls or have new clients come in, they seem to be able to instantly identify the problems that are holding the clients back, and they know exactly how to get them back on the right path.

Great coaches draw from decades of experience to train thousands of people from all walks of life.

Where does that leave you if you don’t have decades of experience? How are you able to identify the problem with your clients?

Hundreds of 12-week programs, rep and sets schemes, periodization methods, fitness tools, guru, forums and advice are available. It can be hard to know what to do in a situation.

Getting this right is important with the athletic careers of people in your hands.

Wouldn’t it be great to sit back and have a trusted voice cut through all the noise, and give some basic principles for improving performance?

This is a three-hour period. Intervention. Dan John does a workshop. Over the course of 30 years, he has developed a system for training and coaching athletes. A system consisting of 10 questions and 5 principles will change the way you train your clients.

Intervention. When someone calls to ask how to achieve a goal, what goes through Dan’s head?

It is his process, his philosophy, and his method of meeting people where they are, and coming up with the most effective way of getting them to a unique point B.

Dan John is a trainer or a coach. Intervention. The system will help simplify the world of strength and athletic performance training. It will give you a bird’s-eye view of where you are and what you need to do next.

Get Dan John’s Coaching System

Dan explores in this workshop lecture. The four quadrants are used to assess and train athletes. There is an impact of age on programming. The five fundamental human movements are how to build and progress. A balanced athlete can be created through asymmetrical training. There are seven different examples of applying the intervention system. There are programming sets and reps. An athlete has a busy training schedule. Appropriate warm ups. And a lot more.

You will walk away with a toolkit that will help you train any client, from sedentary elderly people to 40-year-old moms, high school athletes, or elite professional athletes.

Everything you need, from assessments to rep schemes to exercise selection, is presented as a logical step-by-step process.

You will be able to see what you need and what you don’t.

If you are a serious athlete, coach or fitness professional, this is the most important video you will ever watch.

What’s Covered in the Intervention Video

The Workshop Lecture, a Three-Disc Video

The main. Intervention. Dan John runs a workshop lecture for over three hours. He has a framework and approach for assessing and programming clients. This DVD video allows you to follow the visuals Dan draws on the whiteboard during the presentation, helping you to better absorb and understand the concepts he presents, as if you were right there at the workshop. He goes through the lecture in the workshop. The page markers are from the transcript. That’s right.

• A basic outline of the Southwood Training Program. pg.2
• The correct route of training progressions. pg.2
• The best thing you can do for your own health. pg.3
• The difference between fitness and health, and why Dan thinks it’s so important. pg.3-4
• For most people, especially those over the age of 28: The healthiest thing you can do for yourself. pg. pg.4
• The first question you should ask the person you’re coaching. pg.4
• The method Dan uses to help someone with health in any and every stage and situation of life. pg.4
• Whether or not a moderate diet, eight hours of sleep, and a moderate workout is the correct way to go. pg.4-5
• What you should do to stay in great health. pg.6
• The sad thing that happens to many professional athletes within a year of retirement. pg.6
• A tool Dan likes to use in fitness. pg.6
• The greatest tool Dan teaches in Intervention: The concepts of Work, Rest, Play, Pray. pg.7
• What will enable you to work more in training. pg.7
• How you can usually pick the winner in a track meet. pg.8
• The question Dan almost always asks his clients. pg.8
• The sign of a good relationship. pg.9
• The one fitness quality that determines how fast you improve (and maintain) other fitness qualities. pg.10
• One of the things women who achieve and maintain their fat-loss goals have in common. pg.10
• How measurable a strength coach’s impact is. pg.12-13
• The concept of qualities, and how it varies between sports and influences your role and skills as a coach. pg.13
• How important fat loss is for improving sports performance? pg.13
• Dan John’s Four Quadrants—Know where your athletes are and how you should train them. pg.14-15
• The problem in the fitness industry today. pg.15
• The great sprint coach Barry Ross’ method of becoming a faster sprinter. pg.16
• Which of the four quadrants most people are training in, and which quadrant they should ACTUALLY be in. pg.16
• What you should ask the best and brightest if you want to find out some good things. pg.17
• What strength standards you need to meet to have a shot at being an elite discus thrower. pg.17
• How many miles per hour a good strength program can improve pitch speed in high school. pg.18
• Two things you really need to think about when you work out. pg.18
• Why lean body mass is not always a good thing. pg.18
• How the role of hypertrophy changes with age. pg.19
• What kind of training most people should focus on after the age of 27 or 28. pg.20
• The five basic human movements that should be in your training programs, and which you should prioritise for the greatest impact. pg.21
• How to build up competence in the five movements by working on the patterning underlying the movements. pg.22
• Which exercise you should test and build up before you work on the pushup. pg.22
• The exercise that works the basic patterning on the pull (work on this first if you can’t pull ups). pg.23
• The technical mistake you’re making if kettlebell swings hurt your lower back. pg.24
• Why Dan doesn’t teach high school kids good mornings. pg.24
• The most powerful movement the human body can do. pg.24
• The difference between the squatting and hinging movements. pg.24
• Why it may be a bad idea to teach someone to snatch and clean and good morning in the same week. pg.25
• Two methods for cueing and coaching the hip hinge. pg.25-27
• Dan’s Hinge Assessment Tool. pg.26-27
• How to perform a goblet squat, the basic patterning for the squat movement. pg.28-29
• How to do the basic patterning exercise for the loaded carry movement. pg.29
• The slow strength (grinding) move for the hinge. pg.30
• Slow strength (grinding) moves for the squat. pg.31
• Slow strength (grinding) moves for the loaded carry. pg.31
• How strong should you be in your lifts? Dan’s standards for strength. pg.31
• How strong you should be to play in Division 1 football. pg.31
• How strong you need to be to play on the field at USC. pg.31
• How strong women should aim to be according to fat-loss specialist Josh Hillis. pg.31-32
• The problem with using strength standards. pg.32
• The Eagle: One of the greatest workouts Dan knows. pg.32
• How people used to row (the correct way) when Dan was young. pg.33
• Something missing from the sports training world. pg.34
• Dan’s opinion on how much you should be able to one-arm bench press if you want to play high school football. pg.34
• The incorrect way people almost always do one-arm rows. pg.34
• Demonstration of the one-arm row with the TRX. pg.35
• How to increase the intensity on the TRX one-arm row. pg.35
• An asymmetrical exercise for the hinge movement. pg.35
• Two things to look for when coaching the suitcase deadlift. pg.36
• What to do after you’ve gone through the suitcase deadlift with your athlete. pg.36
• A demonstration of Dan’s two favorite movements. pg.36
• One of the workouts Dan gives to people who are on the road or travel a lot. pg.37
• Something valuable that people miss when they try to lose fat by doing the treadmill. pg.37
• The next thing to work on once your athlete has the pattern, the slow strength and can handle asymmetry issues. pg.37-38
• Why women can usually do swings earlier in their training than men. pg.38
• What to work on after you have the hinge, squat and loaded carries locked down. pg.38
• When you should teach Olympic lifts. pg.39
• How often you should test symmetry. pg.39
• How many reps to do for different exercises. pg.39-40
• A good way to push an athlete harder. pg.41
• How many terrible workouts and how many terrific workouts you should expect to have. pg.41
• How much time should be spent playing sport, how much time should be spent in the weight room, and how much time should be spent doing correctives. pg.42-43
• Where you should spend the majority of your time if you’re trying to lose fat. pg.43
• Where in your workout you should add correctives, and when you should leave them out. pg.43-44
• An exercise for thoracic mobility. pg.44-45
• An example of how Dan would program an elite discus thrower who has been injured three times during the last five seasons, and needs to gain a little strength. pg.45-47
• The three movements that most fat-loss clients need. pg.47
• Dan walks through how to create programs for seven different example clients. pg.50-51
• The biggest problem he sees when people are trying to help with a strength program. pg.51
• Dan’s favorite warmup. pg.52
• The hardest person you will ever work with. pg.54